To not take advantage of something in time.
When Jerry turned down the promotion, he soon discovered that he really missed the boat.
Real Name: Michael Lewis King Jr.
Born: January 15, 1929
Died: April 4, 1968 (39 years old)
WHAT SCHOOL WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE: A great guy who devoted his entire life to stopping discrimination against colored people before he got shot by some asshole.
REALITY: An unfaithful cheater who took pleasure in watching his friends rape women. He may have been a communist as well, although that's been up in the air for awhile.
Martin Luther King Jr. was not the hero that everyone makes him out to be.
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Fucked Around, Found Out
"FAFO" is a phrase used in response to when a person or group does something extremely dumb, often suicidal, and faces the harsh consequences of it.
The belief that critics are almost always dead wrong when reviewing a work. Indeed, these days reviews from critics and audiences tend to differ wildly.
The common belief is that if the critic reviews are negative and the audience is positive, the work is great, and if critic reviews are high while audience reviews are poor, the work is terrible.
The Mario Movie got a 55% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics, but 98% from the audience. That's critical contrarianism for you.
A humorous interjection used to describe a sentence that makes absolutely no sense despite the person who wrote/said it not using any nonsense words.
(i.e all of the words are real and can be found in the dictionary, but the sentence still doesn't make any sense.)
Sometimes the word "certainly" (Those are certainly all words) is added.
"Have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, youâll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- youâll do, you could- you, you want, you want them to do you so much you could do anything?"
"Those are all words!"
If cannabis was as deadly as the media wants you to believe, Willie Nelson wouldn't have lived to half the age he is now.
A play on the word "Sainthood," this is when a person who appears to be extremely kind, generous...just good in general, actually turns out to be anything but. Tends to induce trust issues in people when they find out.
"Mother Teresa was declared a saint, despite the fact that she was a child trafficker, and her healthcare was downright awful. She also refused to let people die in peace -- refusing painkillers and even waterboarding (baptizing) them -- saying that 'Suffering brings you closer to god.' What a great woman, right? Sainthood doesn't fit her at all; more like 'Satanhood.'"